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Friday’s election-interference indictment brought by Robert Mueller, the U.S. special counsel, underscores how thoroughly social-media companies like Facebook and Twitter were played by Russian propagandists.

A California lawmaker sent a letter Tuesday to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, claiming the Vietnamese government is using a covert group called Force 47 to silence dissenting voices on the popular social media platform.

A federal jury found Monday that former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke did not violate a Wisconsin man’s free-speech rights by mocking him on social media about an airport encounter stemming from the man shaking his head at the sheriff during a flight last year.

The family of a man whose murder was recorded on video and posted on Facebook sued for negligence in Ohio state court on Friday, claiming the social media company could have prevented his death by informing law enforcement of the gunman’s intentions.

Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin is fighting to keep his office from being forced to disclose keywords used to filter comments posted to his Facebook page, after the state’s attorney general ordered him to hand over the list.

A federal judge ruled Friday that former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke will go to trial later this month over claims he threatened a Wisconsin man online after an airport encounter stemming from the man shaking his head at the sheriff during a flight last year.

The Communications Workers of America sued T-Mobile, Amazon.com and Cox Communications in a federal class action, accusing them of excluding older workers from job offers by targeting younger age groups on Facebook ads.

Twitter, Facebook and Google cannot be held liable for the online radicalization of a man who shot to death five police officers in Dallas last year, a federal judge ruled Monday, dismissing the case with prejudice.

A Superior Court judge in the District of Columbia on Thursday moved to limit the scope of search warrants obtained by federal investigators for Facebook data in connection with an ongoing investigation into rioting during President Trump’s inauguration.

Social media giant Facebook sued the Internal Revenue Service on Wednesday, claiming it has the right to appeal a finding of taxes due relating to the transfer of Facebook’s worldwide operations to Ireland just like any other business does.